Devonport House
66-68, KING WILLIAM WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213760
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Devonport House
- Statutory Address:
- 66-68, KING WILLIAM WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213760
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Devonport House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 66-68, KING WILLIAM WALK
- Statutory Address 2:
- DEVONPORT HOUSE, ROMNEY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 66-68, KING WILLIAM WALK
- Statutory Address:
- DEVONPORT HOUSE, ROMNEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 38475 77638
Details
TQ 3877 ROMNEY ROAD
26/378 Devonport House (including Nos 66-68 (consec) King William Walk)
II GV
Includes Nos 66-68 (consecutive), King William Walk. Nurses' home. 1926-9 by Sir Edwin Cooper, incorporating part of Boys' Hospital of 1783 (Nos 66-68 King William Walk) as rear wing. English bond reddish brown brick with Portland.stone dressings; hipped Roman tile roof; brick stacks with moulded stone capping. Plan has long east-west range, facing Romney Road, with 2 projecting wings to south including 1783 wing to west. Wrennaissance style. 3 storeys and attic; 24-window range with stone plat band above, rusticated ground floor and stone cill bands to ground and first-floor windows. Giant order of 2 Doric columns to recessed central bay set above semicircular arched entrance flanked by blind oculi; flanking bays have garlanded stone oculi over 24-pane sashes set in bracketed pedimented stone architraves with flaming urns on bracketed balustrades set above panelled double doors in bolection-moulded stone architraves. Ground-floor 20-pane sashes, first-floor 15-pane sashes and second-floor 12-pane sashes set in square-headed stone architraves to main 8-window ranges with similar garlanded oculi and pedimented first-floor windows to each outer bay; pedimented dormers with 12-pane sashes. Other elevations similar in style; rear of central entrance bay has lugged bolection-moulded architrave to second-floor window and pedimented first-floor window with balcony and urns set over similar rusticated doorway; 1783 wing, facing King William Walk, of 3 storeys and 8 x 3 bays with first and second-floor windows (some retaining gauged brick arches over sashes with glazing bars) set in recessed semicircular arches with stone impost courses and with dentilled cornice. Interior: includes marble vestibule with pilasters, commemorative plaque, dentilled cornice and neo-classical style plaster ceiling; fine panelled boardroom with carved overmantel, marble fireplace and neo-classical style plaster ceiling; 2 late C17 style dog-leg staircases with turned balusters.
Listing NGR: TQ3848877621
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398392
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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